Box-handle.



R. J. GRU-ENB'HRG.

BOX HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED DEU. 27, 1909.

Patented May 21, 1912.

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Application filed December 27, 1909. Serial No. 535,199.

and .especially'to handles therefor; and ithas for its object to provide a handle for boxes of the" character referred to having a novel means for improvedly securing the same to the boxes.

.'Other objects will appear in thefollowr ing specification and the accompanying 4 drawing.

I attain my objects by the means illustratedv in the accompanylng drawing, of

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Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a telescoping box and my handles secured therein; Fig. 2 is a central vertical crosssection through Fig. 1, showing the double fastening of the handles; Fig. 3 is a view of one of my handles, showing the central The same numeral of reference marks the same part inall the figures in which it occurs.

In general terms, my inventlon cons sts in a handle for boxes having means of attachment to the inner surfaces of both the top and adjacent side of a box element.

It also consists in the parts, combinations and arrangements described in the following description, illustrated in the accompanying drawlng, and particularly pointed. \out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, 1 is a telescope box composed of the members 2 and 3. I. provide a handle blank 4, which comprises a grip 5, and an attaching portion 6 projectin at right angles from the plane of the grip, and an attachmgportion 7 below the grip and in the plane thereof. Attaching portion 6 is formed by cutting the handle blank in a suitable manner,' leaving the material along the line a?! uncut; and the portion 6 is given its right-angled position bybending along the line ab.

Attention is now. called to the shoulders 11 and 12 on the blank 4:. These shoulders cooperate with the attached portions 5 and 7, by engaging the undersurface' of the top of the box at the edges of the slit8.

The handle is attached to the box members by first making va slit 8 therein longitudinally along the top of each member near its center and close to the inner surface of the adjacent side. The grip port-ion 5 is slipped through the slit, until the shoulders 11- and 12 engage the top whereupon the portions 6 and 7 are secured. A handle is attached in the above manner to both members of the box. When soattached, a hand grasping both grips will draw, them together so as to keep the tops of the box members in engagement.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States is: a v

1. In combination, a telescope box member having a slitted top, and a handle having a gripping portion passing through said slit, a portion in the plane of said grip Patentedl May 21,1512.

ing a gripping portion passing through said slit, a portion in the plane of said grip secured to the inside surface of said box member, having shoulders for engaging the top of the box member, and a porti on at right angles to the plane of said grip secured to the inside surface of the top of said member. I

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

RAOUL J; GRUENBERG.

Witnesses FRANK P. MEDINA, 1 J. G. IMIKY. 

